Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1887-01-27
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
A new railroad, the Parsons &
Pacific, was completed to CofIey-
Vile last Saturday. And yet the
town is reported as being very
dull.
A Cherokee named Mink Chick
en- living on Fourteenmile creek,
near Tahlequah, was shot early
last week and has since died of his
wounds. The friends of both par
ties are up in arms over the affair
and small war is feared.
Bids for the new United States
Jail at FIT. Smith were opened at
Washington last week in the su-
pervising architects office. The
Pauley Jail Building and Manu-
occurring Co. were awarded the
contract for about $4,000.
Fort Smith Elevator:-"Poor
Lamb, said Pat McCarty after
the hanging was over, "the last
thing he asked for was q chew of
tobacco, and when Mr.. Pryor hand
ed him some he bit off chew and
put a piece in his pocket. Nothing
like being provided when you
start on a journey"
Seneca Dispatch: Michael Boyer,
who lives about five miles southeast
OF here was in town Monday. He
has been prospecting on his land
and has just had an assay made OF
some of the mineral from his
mine, which runs about 5000 of
gold and silver to the ton Mr..
Boyer is one of Newton county's
old reliable farmers, and does not
make misrepresentation.
Henry Smith and two other
guards under Deputy United States
Marshal Phillips were murdered in
their beds on the 18th, at a point
twenty miles from Eufaula. They
had but one prisoner, a Greek boy
aged eighteen years, and he was
only charged with introducing.
His story, as told when he gave
information of the tragedy, is that
he ran into the brush when the at
tack was made upon the camp.
The marshal, however, believes
him to be the murderer, and he is
in the Fort Smith Jail on that
charge.
Fort Smith Times:-Sixty-three
prisoners are confined in the U. S.
Jail, with as many more out on
bond, awaiting their turn in the
district court at this place. y X 4
The Frisco grade is finish cd nearly
to Tuska Homa, and as soon as
one or two bridges can be put in
the grade will be ready for the
track some distance beyond Wind
ing Stair mountain. 4 y 4 Late ad-
vices indicate that we are to have
no February term of the United
States court, only s23, ,061 having
been appropriated for witness fees
for all federal courts combined;
$4,000 Of the 1923, ,061 have been
recommended TO this place, which
is barely sufficient to set things in
motion good.
Chetopa Statesman:-Drs. J. j.
& l.. b. Kackley have been APP
pointed surgeons for the Missouri
Pacific railroad, for the field ex-
tending from ChetOpa to Nevada
and from Parsons to Vinita. + y +
George w. Reddick, colored, has
been committed to Jail from this
place 10 await trial for the murder
of his infant child. Before ;he
coroner's jury the wife testified
that her husband had treated the
babe very cruelty and brutally;
that he had frequently threatened
to kill IL, and had asked her to
help him to kill it, and she had al
ways refused; that he was in the
habit, when the baby cried, of
holding his hand over its nose and
mouth to make it hush, and that
on Wednesday night he took il
away from her because il cried,
and in a little while il became
quiet, She heard nothing more
Of it during the night, and in the
morning IL was dead. DR.. Temple
made an examination of the dead
babe. He found several bruised
spots on its body, and on each
side Of its neck were marks as
though il had been grasped by the
hand in a violent pressure. and its
neck was dislocated or broken.
Reddick admitted placing his
hand on the babes nose and
mouth TO stop its crying, but claim.
ed he did not kill it. The jury re,
turned a verdict to the effect that
the child came TO its death at "a,
hands Of Reddick and he was com
mitied to jail'to await trial in th,
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